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Article: Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature.(Review)
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- New Criterion
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- January 1, 2001
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Peter Brooks Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. University of Chicago Press, 192 pages, $24
Confession is all the rage these days. During one recent week, The New York Times Magazine ran an "Endpaper" about the emotionally blighting effect of a man's failure to admit an adolescent crime, expiated only by a deathbed confession to his children; The Wall Street Journal ran a front page story about Japanese police practices that end up eliciting false confessions from suspects; Court TV ran a trailer for a program showing police interrogation videotapes of confessing perpetrators; even the nearby subway stop featured a billboard that ...